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Downlink — Real-time satellite imagery on your desktop
Watch sunlight and weather patterns move across Earth throughout the day, and bask in the glory of our blue marble in real time. Every 20 minutes (or every hour, you pick), Downlink updates your desktop background with the freshest images of Earth.
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Nicole Bermack
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Starting this comment with a quote we all know:
“Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”
Downlink is a bit closer than Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot, but the effect is still profound.
Having an updating view of our fragile globe refreshing every 20-minutes on our desktops is both humbling and motivating. I love this simple app and hope all of you do too.
Huge credit to https://twitter.com/acolangelo for this.
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